Japanese panel wants to establish team to fight fake news, with help from U.S. tech giants
A government panel has drafted a proposal to create a public-private team to fight fake online news that U.S. tech giants would be asked to join. The proposal calls for the establishment of a team including the government and social media service operators at home ...
Facebook removes 3.2 billion fake accounts and millions of child abuse posts
Facebook Inc. removed 3.2 billion fake accounts between April and September, along with millions of posts depicting child abuse and suicide, according to its latest content moderation report released on Wednesday. That more than doubles the number of fake accounts taken down during the same ...
Fake news is stoking violence and anger in Hong Kong's continuing protests
Soon after Alex Chow Tsz-Lok fell off the edge of a parking garage in Hong Kong, the allegations began spreading online. Posts circulating in chat groups and on social media claimed the 22-year-old student was chased — and maybe even pushed — by police who ...
From toast of the town to toxic: Facebook CEO on outs with Democrats
Mark Zuckerberg's social network in Washington is shrinking. Bipartisan hostility against Facebook has been building for months, fueled by a series of privacy scandals, the site's role in Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign and accusations that Facebook crushes competitors. Now, with the 2020 elections ...
Yesterday's news: Trump cancels Times and Post subscriptions
President Donald Trump doesn't like what he reads in two of America's biggest newspapers, The New York Times and Washington Post — so he won't be getting them anymore. "We did not renew our subscription, that is correct. This will be a significant cost savings ...
Russian operatives sacrifice followers to stay undercover on Facebook ahead of U.S. election
Efforts by Russian influence campaigns to stay undetected on social media ahead of next year's U.S. elections are undermining their ability to gain followers and spread divisive political messages, a senior Facebook executive told Reuters. Social media users need to stand out from the crowd ...
White House admits quid pro quo, saying request for 2016 poll probe was factor in frozen Ukraine aid
President Donald Trump's withholding of $391 million in military aid to Ukraine was linked to his request that the Ukrainians look into a claim — debunked as a conspiracy theory — about the 2016 U.S. election, a senior presidential aide said on Thursday, the ...
Mark Zuckerberg defends Facebook's policy against fact-checking politicians
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday defended the huge social network's policy of refraining from fact-checking politicians, saying it's not the job of tech firms to "censor." Speaking to students at Georgetown University in Washington, Zuckerberg responded to critics who argued that Facebook is ...
Wisconsin jury awards $450,000 in Sandy Hook defamation case
A jury in Wisconsin has awarded $450,000 to the father of a boy killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting after he filed a defamation lawsuit against conspiracy theorist writers who claimed the massacre never happened. A Dane County jury on Tuesday decided the ...
Greta Thunberg tipped for Nobel Peace Prize, but media freedom or migration may throw up a surprise
Bookmakers seem confident that Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg is a shoo-in for this year's Nobel Peace Prize, but some experts are more cautious. The 16-year-old has already received Amnesty International's top honor and the Right Livelihood Award, sometimes dubbed the "alternative Nobel." Online ...
Singapore is about to introduce a law against "fake news" that rights groups have warned may stifle free speech and opposition politicians have said could give the government too much power as elections loom. The law was passed earlier this year after a public consultation. ...
